Daily News about R-devel

CHANGES IN R-devel NEW FEATURES

Added support for new ‘%~%’ relation (“is distributed as”) in plotmath.

CHANGES IN R-devel BUG FIXES

The Fortran code underlying ‘nlminb()’ could infinite-loop if any of the functions returned ‘NA’ or ‘NaN’. This is now an error for the gradient or Hessian, and a warning for the function (with the value replaced by ‘Inf’).

2.15.1 patched BUG FIXES

‘tool::checkPoFile()’ unprotected too early in its C code and so
segfaulted from time to time.